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View all search resultsThe cooperatives and SMEs minister has raised fears over TikTok expanding into digital sectors beyond video sharing and potentially threaten the country's small businesses, which form the backbone of the national economy.
In its annual report, the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) said democratic institutions were being undermined by issues ranging from restrictions on freedom of expression to increasing distrust in the legitimacy of elections.
Populist politics, the use of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions to silence critics, a tendency of countries to mimic the anti-democratic behaviour of others, and disinformation used to divide societies are mainly to blame, the Stockholm-based intergovernmental organisation said in a report.
The government is joining hands with e-commerce players and tech firms to provide training for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), to boost digital inclusion among small businesses and to improve their skills amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Currently, the country’s e-commerce industry only has government regulation No. 80/2019 and Trade Ministerial Regulation No. 50/2020, which will come into effect in November as a regulatory umbrella.
Meanwhile, recent research by security firm Kaspersky shows that identifiable personal information such as name and age are the type of data most often targeted by cybercriminals. Once hit by a cyberattack, 29 percent of the targeted companies said that they had difficulties attracting new customers.
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